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The Religion and Armed Conflict (RELAC) Data

Svensson, Isak and Desirée Nilsson. 2018. "Disputes over the Divine: Introducing the Religion and Armed Conflict (RELAC) Data, 1975 to 2015". Journal of Conflict Resolution, 62(5): 1127 1148. Download replication data for the RELAC dataset.
Download an updated version of the RELAC dataset (compatible with the newest UCDP Dyadic Dataset).
Access the updated version of the RELAC codebook (pdf)

Other publications

Nilsson, Desirée, and Isak Svensson. 2021. "The Intractability of Islamist Insurgencies: Islamist Rebels and the Recurrence of Civil War." International Studies Quarterly.
Svensson, Isak. “Religion and Civil War - an overview [pdf]“, in Gunes Tezcur & Paul A. Djupe (section eds.): Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics & Religion, forthcoming.
Svensson, Isak, Finnbogason, Daniel and Göran Larsson. "Is Shia-Sunni Violence on the Rise? Exploring New Data on Intra-Muslim Organised Violence 1989-2017". Civil Wars 21(1): 25-53. Download replication data.
Baumann, Jonas, Daniel Finnbogason and Isak Svensson. 2018. "Rethinking Mediation: Resolving Religious Conflicts [pdf]". CSS Policy Perspectives 6(1). Center for Security Studies (CSS) ETH Zurich.
Juergensmeyer, Mark. 2018. "How Cosmic War Ends: The Case of ISIS [pdf]". Numen 65(2-3): 125-140.
Juergensmeyer, Mark. 2018. “Thinking Sociologically about Religion and Violence: The Case of ISIS”, Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review, 79(1): 20-34.
Sheikh, Mona Kanwal. 2018. "Recursion or rejection? Securitization theory faces Islamist violence and foreign religions [pdf]". Global Discourse 8(1): 26-38.
Sheikh, Mona Kanwal. "Religion, Emotions and Conflict Escalation [pdf]", in Brent Steele and Eric Heinze (eds.): Routledge Handbook of Ethics and International Relations. Abingdon: Routledge. 2018.
Finnbogason, Daniel and Isak Svensson. 2017. "The missing jihad. Why have there been no jihadist civil wars in Southeast Asia?" The Pacific Review.
Karakus, Dogukan Cansin and Isak Svensson. 2017. "Between the Bombs: Exploring Partial Ceasefires in the Syrian Civil War, 2011-2017 [pdf]". Terrorism and Political Violence, 1-20.
Nilsson, Desirée and Isak Svensson. "Mapping armed conflicts over Islamist claims: exploring regional variations [pdf]". In Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI Yearbook 2017: Armaments, Disarmaments and International Security. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, p. 58-65.
Sheikh Kanwal, Mona (ed). "Expanding Jihad: How al-Qaeda and Islamic State find new battlefields [pdf]". Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies, 2017.
Svensson, Isak. “How jihadist wars end [pdf]”, in Mona Kanwal Sheikh (ed.): Expanding Jihad: How al-Qaeda and Islamic State find new battlefields, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies. 2017.
Svensson, Isak. "Conflict and Peace [pdf]", in David Yamane (ed.): Handbook of Religion and Society. New York: Springer, 2016, p. 467-484.
Svensson, Isak and Ron E. Hassner (eds.): International Relations and Religion, New Delhi: SAGE Publications Ltd., 2016.